"It's a strange feeling to be so completely dependant upon other people; but at least it teaches one to be grateful, and I hope I shall never forget that." -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"To believe is to know in your heart everything is happening exactly as it is meant to." -Flavia
"He wondered if he would kiss her and when he would kiss her and if she wanted to be kissed and if she were thinking of it, but she asked him what he would have to eat tonight at his hotel. He said clam chowder. Thursday, he said, they always have clam chowder. Is that the way you know it's Thursday, she said, or is that the way you know it's clam chowder?" -James Thurber, The Evenings at Seven
"You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves." -Mary Oliver
"I don't want you to waste your precious lives on something that doesn't count." -Rev. Karl Reko
"I am nothing special; of this I am sure. I am an common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough." -Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
"Or we could simply pack our bags and catch a plane to Barcelona because this city's a drag... I may take a holiday in Spain, leave my wings behind me, drink my worries down the drain and fly away to somewhere new." -Counting Crows
"Whatever choices you make should come from your heart... I don't want to live with 'I-should-haves' because I was too afraid to make choices, because I was too afraid to leave a comfortable life." -Mickela Moore
"Poetry is not a course, not a subject, not a discipline. It's a way of being in the world." -Jack Ridl
"You have lived on the cliff so long, staring off to sea, dreaming what lies on the other side; the big land, the gasp of rumpled cities, the flush and certainty: we are what is happening. May you find it. -Naomi Shihab Nye
"We are just a sketch, and with time, it fills up." -Rev. Ines Knoll
"We just lay awake in lust and rust in the rain, and pour over everything we say we trust, it happened again, I listened in through hallways and thin doors, where the rivers unwind rust and the rain endure." -Jason Mraz
"If I had the chance love, I would not hesitate to tell you all the things I never said before, don't tell me it's too late cause I've relied on my illusion to keep me warm at night, and I've denied in my capacity to love but I am willing to give up this fight." -Sarah McLachlan
"One way or another, I'm just hoping to find a way to get my feet out in the world." -Counting Crows
"Slow down you crazy child and take the phone off the hook and disappear for awhile. It's alright, you can afford to lose a day or two. When will you realize? Vienna waits for you." -Billy Joel
"Life is short, we must move very slowly." -Naomi Shihab Nye
"We do not read and write poetry because it is cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion." -Dead Poets Society
"Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances." -Maya Angelou
"The idea that we could have avoiding many of life's difficulties if we had taken things more cautiously is too foolish to be entertained for a moment... to renounce a full life and its real joys is neither Christian nor human." -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself." -George Bernard Shaw
"I do not need to change my voice; I do not need to translate into different theological languages; we are far closer than we realize. Especially when the topic is art, for art cuts across all denominational barriers. Art is. -Madeline L'Engle
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." -Lao Tzu
"Poetry does for ordinary speech what dance does for ordinary movement." -Unknown
"Nothing you love is ever lost, not really. Things, people - they always go away sooner or later. You can't hold them anymore than you can hold moonlight. But if they've touched you, if they're inside you, then they are still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you have inside your heart." -Unknown
"Today, today if you believe that there is no other way, try living today, today, little by little, you're on your own way. Perhaps we're on our way, perhaps we've gone too far, perhaps we should slow down and be who we really are, where we really are." -Groove Armada
"Dance is as necessary to my body as the intaking and exhaling of air. Without it I am left lifeless with no way to articulate my deepest sentiments to the world." -Dolo Sanchez
"Safe? Who said anything about being safe? Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you." -C.S. Lewis
"Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It`s the rhythm of your life. Its the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy." -Jaques D`Amboise
"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten." -Linda Graham
"I felt like I took the stairs and my childhood took the elevator." -Drew Barrymore
"To one who dreams, there is no such place as far away." -Judy Garland
"Maybe they're rollin around in the hay with someone else but, they're not as good as you'll be. You just gotta wait your turn. He's out there, she's out there, they're just learning what to contrast you against." -John Mayer
"Homesickness is a good thing. It means you have something to miss." -Jack Ridl
"The idea is, I think, to dance until you're so tired all you can do is dance." -Omar Edwards
"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this isn't enchantment then where is it to be found?" -J.B. Priestly
"If you can do an 8 bar phrase with your feet, and another person, not a dancer, can understand what you just did, you HIT, you expressed yourself! You made a statement!" -Savion Glover
"I could have met you in a sandbox, I could have passed you on the sidewalk, could I have missed my chance and watched you walk away? I'm tired of being alone, so hurry up and get here." -John Mayer
"The things that we're afraid of are gonna show us what we're made of in the end." ~Blessid Union of Souls
"Carpe Diem... seize the day... make your lives extraordinary..." ~Dead Poets Society
"Poetry is the creation of beauty in words." ~Edgar Allen Poe
"Take the first step in faith. You don't need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." ~Martin Luther King Jr
"The entire sum of existance is the magic of being needed by just one person." ~Vi Putnam
